sure the election was right and fair. that s what he s going to allege as his basis for trying to remove this to federal court. and those arguments could take a while. i think it s very unrealistic for fani willis to think she can try this case in six months. i don t think you can get to the supreme court and back in that time potentially, depending on how quickly they move. so, neil, i m going to give you a two-part question and i want your thoughts on what claire has articulated about what will likely be effort on trump s part to have this moved to federal court. i also want you to take us inside individual 20 s role in act 90. okay. so with respect to trump s ability to remove this to federal court, there is a statute that goes back to the civil war that allows in certain instances state charges, state trials to be moved to federal court. she would still be running the trial. it will be under georgia law but it would take place in federal
if she did, how many defendants she have in the courtroom at the same time in. she had multiple defendants at the same time. this was a very controversial use of the statute. she chafd the atlanta school system as a criminal enterprise to use these charges. from members of her constituents, members of the legal community. she was successful and it was one of the biggest criminal cases in metro atlanta history. frank, i want to show you something she said. it was interesting to me because republicans will say that their reason for not getting involved in states lake georgia who want to pass voter suppression laws.
so really quite a remarkable document. so that s sort of the way i ve been thinking about it in the short amount of time i ve had to sort of process what this means in relation to the other case. you know, i think it makes clear that there were real human victims. i mean, the victims don t stay silent and we ve tried on this show to give some of the victims a chance to have their voices heard. i think the stories told, one satisfied the slightly obvious point that trump couldn t stay in power just by turning over his defeat in georgia. so she acknowledges and tells the story of the entire plot to cling to power, even though he had lost the 2020 presidential election, which is very satisfying to sort of the impulse to see logic prevail.
co-defendants along with 30 unindicted co-conspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft and perjury. these very, very serious crimes are detailed in 161 separate and concrete and understandable acts taking place not just in georgia but in seven other states and washington, d.c. an extending well beyond the day of the january 6th insurrection, going all the way through of last september 2022.
caused complete disarray for even legit people to give pause and say, holy cow, if it happened in that little county, maybe it happened everywhere. that is how fragile this was. that s how experimental this democracy is. one bad link, a couple of bad officials in a little county south of atlanta. it s a remarkable and sobering point. harry, i want to read a to you from the damt about this section. members of the enterprise including several of the defendants corruptly conspired in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere. in georgia, members of the enterprise stole data including ballot images, voting equipment software, personal voter information. the stolen data was then distributed to other members of the enterprise, including members of other states. exactly what frank described was the plan, right? to take this manufactured data